This works for me from one Debian Sarge machine to another after ssh'ing in
with X forwarding on:

DISPLAY=:0.0 realplay song.mp3 &

Realplayer pops open on the remote machine's display and starts playing.

Also, there used to be a command line program based on realplayer that was
designed for blind people using braille readers and not running X.
Can't remember what it was called, though.

-Steve

On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 01:06:38PM -0500, Ryan O'Rourke wrote:
> I'm trying to run a RealPlayer-based application on a remote host from 
> PuTTY in Windows. It's an application that will capture Real audio as 
> it plays through RealPlayer so it needs to actually open the 
> application to do it. I don't see a way for RealPlayer to run without 
> X so I'm trying to set the $DISPLAY variable to open RealPlayer on my 
> Linux host. There must be something wrong though because if I do:
>     DISPLAY=hostname:0 realcap [arguments] [options] [URL] &
> I get an error message about not being able to open the display.
> 
> What do I need to do in order for my command to open RealPlayer on the 
> remote Linux box instead of trying to open it on my local Windows box?
> 
> TIA.
> 
> -- Ryan
> 
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